Baby Yanks' Mitre faces Herd
One guy just back from New York and one guy close to getting the call there will be on the mound tonight in Coca-Cola Field. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre's Sergio Mitre, much discussed as a fill-in for the injured Chien-Ming Wang, goes against Ken Takahashi, who has pitched in relief all year for both the Mets and Herd.
Mitre is 2-1 with a 3.26 ERA in five starts with Scranton. He sat out a 50-game PED suspension at the start of the season after taking a supplement he purchased legally at a GNC store and that forced him to open at Class A Tampa to get his arm stretched out. Mitre has 52 big-league starts with Florida and the Chicago Cubs in a 78-game big-league career.
Rough news from the Mets today as the injury timetable was pushed back for all three of the injured core stars (Jose Reyes, Carlos Beltran and Carlos Delgado). I'm of the ilk that one of the few things left to watch here this season is if any of the three land in Buffalo on rehab.
Top Yankees center field prospect Austin Jackson (.319) is batting third tonight for Scranton. Fellow Triple-A all-star Shelley Duncan (.291-21-68) is batting cleanup. He's my first-half IL MVP. Here's the Buffalo lineup:
Cory Sullivan, cf
Jesus Feliciano, lf
Emil Brown, rf
Michel Abreu, 1b
Mike Lamb, dh
Javier Castillo, 3b
Rene Rivera, c
Wilson Valdez, ss
Luis Rivera, 2b
---Mike Harrington
